Similar to a delta wing, the Soviet-developed Tu-144 incorporated special retractable foreplanes (canards) to improve lift ...

With increasing scrutiny on the environmental consequences of flying, it is important to consider the effect of supersonic ...

The days of supersonic travel have been over for more than two decades, while aircraft continue to cruise at Mach 0.85.

Today, the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde, the turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner icon, first flew in 1969.

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

But while the successful test flight of XB-1 shows that supersonic flight without sonic booms is technically feasible, the ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil ...

NASA captures a historic image of the XB-1 supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier without a loud boom, marking a breakthrough.

NASA and Boom Supersonic capture a stunning image of the XB-1 aircraft breaking the sound barrier using the Sun as a backdrop ...

Passenger numbers also fell after an Air France Concorde crashed just minutes ... such as shock waves, around the supersonic aircraft." The plan was for Boom to break the sound barrier at ...